Essential Blues

cherokee747 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:24 am

+1 on all above but check out..Tommy Castro, Coco Montoya, Walter Trout, Kid Ramos, Tinsley Ellis, Jimmy Thackery, and Lance Lopez..............

Mike

Troublecall · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:16 am

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. The list of performers who got their starts with John is miles long...

guitslinger · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:57 am

You absolutely have to listen to Muddy Water's "Hard Again" it is worth the price of the CD just for Mannish Boy although it's just done in one chord it never becomes monotonous as a matter of fact that's what makes the song. Johnny Winter and Pinetop Perkins play on it as well.Also Howlin' Wolf had Hubert Sumlin playing on a lot of his records.Sonny Boy Williamson although a harp player had a great bunch of musicians backing him up.

Hoeycow · **Joined:** Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:54 pm **Posts:** 507

Thanks everyone! I was at Blues on Whyte years ago before I even knew what I was listening to :lol:

Wow I forgot about that place. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I got a lot of listening to do!

russianracehorse · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2010 2:54 pm

texasguitarslinger wrote:

Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Texas Flood" is the classic, and "In Step" is arguably the best
Any Jimmy Reed album
Johnny Copeland - "Texas Twister" (SRV plays on one of the tracks)
There's also an album out of Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland called "Showdown" that's really, really good.
Albert King - "King of Blues Guitar"
Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan - "In Session", it's the only recording of them playing together. It's basically just a jam, but as you can imagine it's an amazing one.

Anything by the Allman Brothers, The Animals, as you can probably tell I started scrolling down with my iPod which is why there were so many A's just now...
Bobby "Blue" Bland - "Two Steps from the Blues" if you like Soul Blues
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - "The Original Peacock Recordings" which was recorded right here in Houston
Elmore James - "The Sky is Crying" for some slide
Freddie King - "Let's Hide Away and Dance Away" SRV and his brother stole every lick of every song of this album
Anything from Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters. (Also look into Willie Dixon.)
You should listen to Jeff Healey if you haven't already, and Jimmie Vaughan.
Anything from John Lee Hooker...
If you can, try to track down the original version of Texas Flood by Larry Davis, it's really cool to hear that.
Leadbelly... Lightnin' Hopkins... Lonnie Johnson... Mance Lipscomb... Robert Johnson...
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - "East-West"

Sorry, that was sort of a mess. Just random selections from my iPod.

Great list, TGS. I'm so proud of you for knowing Mance Lipscomb. If you like Mance, you'll probably also like Pink Anderson.

budglo · **Joined:** Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:17 pm **Posts:** 1986

guitslinger wrote:

You absolutely have to listen to Muddy Water's "Hard Again" it is worth the price of the CD just for Mannish Boy although it's just done in one chord it never becomes monotonous as a matter of fact that's what makes the song. Johnny Winter and Pinetop Perkins play on it as well.Also Howlin' Wolf had Hubert Sumlin playing on a lot of his records.Sonny Boy Williamson although a harp player had a great bunch of musicians backing him up.

I just discovered "Hard again" last year after reading Muddy Waters biography.Great album that revived his career.It was produced by Johnny Winters .I would also recommend Big Bill Broonzy as well as Robert Lockwood Jr.Buddy Guy is probably one of my favorite right now next to SRV and Albert King.Another good listen is Freddy King.

BlackCatBone · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:26 pm

Anything by Skip James or Son House.

ClassicRock92 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:55 pm

hey im a younger blues player so my suggestion is to sit and listen to where the light is by John Mayer or TRY! by the John Mayer Trio.
the latter being the latter being the most suitable but both of them have great tracks on that can really get you playing bluesy stuff with real kick in them:P

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Sun Jan 24, 2010 6:20 pm

Muddy Waters: most of his 50s & 60s Chess singles & albums; his last albums were great--Hard Again, I'm Ready, King Bee, and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live (all on Blue Sky label), ; also, The Real Folk Blues (a great 50s/60s disc).

Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers--if you want something really raw and funky.

Any & all Freddy King...selected Otis Rush (be cautious, he's sometimes inconsistent).

Pinetop Perkins or Marcia Ball for somegreat barrelhouse piano work.

The Fabulous Thunderbirds' first four albums, and their 1996 cd "Roll Of The Dice"

Any and all Kim Wilson's solo discs...any & all of Jimmie Vaughan's solo discs.

...and the Screamin' Armadillos "Dirty Texas Groove" or "Panther City Blues"

SATV46 · **Joined:** Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:57 am **Posts:** 163

I just went thru all the posts and they're some great suggestions. You also might want to check out some of Gary Moore's stuff. I especially like "Blues for Greenie". It's dedicated to Peter Greene of early Fleetwood Mac fame. He uses the '59 Les Paul Std that he bought from him on this album. Another good one is the "Still Got The Blues For You" album. Listen to his take on "Midnight Blues".

Invader.CC · **Joined:** Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:10 am **Posts:** 413

Lets not for get Eric Clapton Me and Eric Clapton Sings the Blues...

But one that has not been mentioned and truly surprised me is Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues..

But it was cool to see Son House and some others mentioned

texasguitarslinger · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:20 am

russianracehorse wrote:

Great list, TGS. I'm so proud of you for knowing Mance Lipscomb. If you like Mance, you'll probably also like Pink Anderson.

Thanks for the tip, I double checked my iPod and I actually found a Pink Anderson song on one of the many blues compilation CDs I found at the library.

I don't know if it's just because I'm in Houston and we have a fairly large library system, but there are tons of blues CDs at the library. It's worth checking out.

I forgot a few people who are worth mentioning before, Buddy Guy (seems like a no brainer, but for some reason I must have skipped over him), Charlie Patton and Blind Wille Johnson (slide).

FirstMeasure · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:40 am

This thread would make a great playlist. I usually suggest.....

Willie Dixon
T-bone walker
Elmore James
Muddy Waters (Hard Again in particular)
Johnny Winter (Self Titled and Progressive Blues Experiment)
Albert Collins (Cold Snap)

vonas01 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:48 pm

Big Maceo
Did anyone mention Elmore James? If they did, he's worth mentioning again :-)

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:17 pm

I can't believe no one has mentioned Big Bill Broonzy yet.
Lazy Lester too.

CC

	Page 2 of 3	[ 32 posts ]	Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3 Next
Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3 Next

	Page 2 of 3	[ 32 posts ]	Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3 Next
Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3 Next

Andorra	EN	ES	FR
Belgium	EN	DE	FR
Croatia	EN
Czech Republic	EN
Estonia	EN
France	EN	FR
Germany	EN	DE
Italy	EN	IT
Latvia	EN
Lithuania	EN
Malta	EN
Netherlands	EN
Poland	EN
Romania	EN
Slovakia	EN
Sweden	EN
United Kingdom	EN

Austria	EN	DE
Bulgaria	EN
Cyprus	EN
Denmark	EN
Finland	EN
Greece	EN
Hungary	EN
Ireland	EN
Liechtenstein	EN	DE
Luxembourg	EN	DE	FR
Monaco	EN	FR
Norway	EN
Portugal	EN
Slovenia	EN
Spain	EN	ES
Switzerland	EN	DE	FR	IT

Mod Shop

Custom Shop

Essential Blues

Who is online